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...Stories and a Memory, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. Excellent minor pieces by the Sicilian prince whose elegiac novel of nobility's erosion, The Leopard, was a bestseller two years ago. The author's memoir of the great houses he lived in as a child is particularly good...
...another Lampedusa book has washed ashore. It is a minor work, containing nothing as powerful as the portrait of Don Fabrizio, the autocratic old Leopard. But the fine spaciousness of mind is there in the book's three sections: a memoir of the author's childhood homes, a short story and a fragment of a novel...
Stables and Portraits. The memoir is a lovingly conducted tour through what obviously are the stage settings for The Leopard. The best of this recollection begins with Lampedusa's description of the annual family removal from Palermo to the vast summer house at Santa Margherita Belice. The train ride seemed hot and endless to little Giuseppe. There were no toilets aboard; the family bought a cheap brown chamber pot for him, which was thrown out the window just before the end of the trip. The summer house was a vast affair that the author describes as "a kind...
...such work, he says, he missed the pleasure of speaking his own mind. He has already written America the Vincible, a turgid criticism of Eisenhower's foreign policy; now he is prepared to take another public swipe at his old boss with a new book, Eisenhower: A Political Memoir, to be published next spring. In an excerpt in the current issue of Look, Ike emerges as a testy and shallow ex-general, contemptuous of Adlai Stevenson ("that monkey"), dubious of Richard Nixon ("I just haven't honestly been able to believe that he is presidential timber"). Not surprisingly...
...Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny (4 ft., 11 in.), dark-haired Polly wrote a bestselling memoir (A House Is Not a Home) that helped enrich the idiom ("There's no shaking off the press"), completed two years of college, where one of her professors coined a rich one of his own: "The problem is, Miss Adler knows nothing about syntax...